I'm curious as to how simmers use the 'Select Aircraft' screen when selecting planes.  Do you just usually leave it in the default "ALL - ALL - ALL" mode and scroll through the multitude of aircraft to find the one you want?  Or do you use the filters?  What works best for you?  What do you like?  Do you even like the ALL method?

 

thx,

 

Clutch

I leave it ALL ALL ALL

I find too often the meta tags for the aircraft themselves are not proper, so the sorting is kind of sloppy at best. The easiest way to keep my hanger organized is to get rid of junk that I do not use or fly. And my inventory does not change dramatically so it's easy to find the plane I want relatively quickly, since it's always in the same place.

I leave it ALL ALL ALL

I find too often the meta tags for the aircraft themselves are not proper, so the sorting is kind of sloppy at best. The easiest way to keep my hanger organized is to get rid of junk that I do not use or fly. And my inventory does not change dramatically so it's easy to find the plane I want relatively quickly, since it's always in the same place.

What he said... I created a folder called Airplane Archive for the aircraft that are out of favor at any given time 

 

PLUS I find the liveries I like in a particular aircraft from the "active" Airplane folder and write down the titles.  I then go back into the respective "aircraft.cfg" and cut and paste my favorites to the top of the list and re-number them with my favorites at the top.  I then comment out // all the ones I don't want to use.  These two methods thin the herd considerably.

 

Mslim

I use the Publisher filter, that usually narrows it down enough, unless it's Carenado, then I uncheck show all variations, select the aircraft type, then check show all variations again to choose the livery.

 

It's not a very good UI, I'm sure there are better ways to drill down first via aircraft type, then show just the paints for the selected type. I looked at simlauncher screenshots and it looks the same as the FSX UI. Ideal Flight has a more reasonable looking aircraft chooser (just from looking at the screenshot).

I made my own list so all I need to do is select my own group of aircraft. It's easy to do so by changing these parameters in aircraft.cfg:

ui_createdby=
ui_manufacturer=
ui_type=
ui_typerole=
ui_variation=

Funny you ask that today, because I have always sorted by Publisher and just the other day tried sorting by Aircraft Type and found that it works a lot better. If I'm looking for a PMDG 747, for instance, I don't have to sort through the 737's cluttering up the screen.

All-all-all, just because usually I only choose my aircraft when I take a look at my hangar. Most of the time I have no plan where/what to fly until I have to select an aircraft...

A problem with removing default aircraft from the "Select Aircraft" list is when flying MS missions.  They require default aircraft.

My "hangar" contains only a few payware aircraft in liveries I fly regularly, so navigating it with specific filters is unnecessary. 

I leave it ALL ALL ALL, but it isn't really organized. Because most of my aircraft are freeware the names are all messed up and weird so I might have 20 777's in the different liveries and they are all over the folder as 777-232ER, or 777-200ER and other names different for each livery. I am afraid to change the names of the folders and aircraft names though to organize it because I don't know if the aircraft will still work in FSX.

 

 

Remy Mermelstein

777-300 FS Pilot

I never really bothered with the selections. I just scroll to the aircraft I want. I find it easy because every aircraft is arranged alphabetically, so my Airbuses are at the top, Boeings are about one fifth down, McDonnell Douglas aircraft are more towards the bottom etc. 

As long as you change only UI part of aircraft.cfg, it will work just fine.

I find that if I use ALL-ALL-ALL, the scroll button stops at IRIS Tornado, and I can't get any further. Is there something I can do about this? Thank you.